Today , I was just browsing through Orkut and I came across this mind-blowing community “AMA KHA BHOPALI”…..mann the community rocks totally (exclusively for bhopalis)…..the guys have done a stupendous job ….a great compilation of the “bhopali” lingo and “bhopali ” slangs….GOD i miss them like hell….especially those mini-bus rides from Campion square to royal market in the scorching heat and the bus conductors shouting at the top of their voices – “maka – naka – jyoti – sargam – bush -shtaind”……now thats what you call a “fultoo”bhopali expirience.
I am presenting here some of the bhopali slangs ,taken from the community itself so that the unfortunate non – bhopalis can get a glimpse of what it means to be a true “Bhopali”.

Mind you, I grew up in bhopal from 1968 to 1980. never really spent much time there after.

however. the Thangewallahs near old railway station, bharat talkies, the crowded and congested streets near laxmi talkies where i used to go to buy used text books for school, Bogda Pul, etc are fresh on my mind. The snack at laxmi talkies used to be a giant papad which you could munch on for a good part of the movie. Some of the tea stalls in old bhopal would sell their chai with salt instead of sugar. I had a friend who used to live in a grand haveli in old bhopal which would look like a slum from outside. Let’s not forget the famous or infamous mangalwara where all the eunuchs lived and harassed the daylights out of people all over bhopal. I was terrified of them but now thinking back about them it was funny as hell how they would sing for any special occasions and if you don’t give them money, they would show you their private parts :-).

New Bhopal with TT Nagar, BHel etc are like any other city nothing really to write about. I lived in N2 quarters in Govindpura, near TRT and the N1 quarters.